Caring for cognitively impaired older patients in the general hospital: A qualitative analysis of similarities and differences between a specialist Medical and Mental Health Unit and standard care wards

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Caring for cognitively impaired older patients in the general hospital: A qualitative analysis of similarities and differences between a specialist Medical and Mental Health Unit and standard care wards

Background: Around half of people aged over 70 admitted as an emergency to general hospital have dementia, delirium or both. Dissatisfaction is often expressed about the quality of hospital care. A medical and mental health unit was developed to provide best practice care to cognitively impaired o...

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Main Authors:	Goldberg, Sarah E., Whittamore, Katherine H., Pollock, Kristian, Harwood, Rowan H., Gladman, John R.F.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2014
Subjects:	Aged cognitive impairment delirium dementia frail elderly general hospital person-centred care quality of healthcare qualitative research
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41077/

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